a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior

Used to express desire or intent, Used in the main clause of a conditional statement to express a possibility or likelihood, Used to indicate uncertainty, imperative_ Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present. See 2d & 3d will, verb_ As a past-tense form of will, As a modal verb, the subjunctive of will,

To befall; betide, To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases, verb_ obsolete, except in set phrases To be, become, betide, adjective_ Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for, Deserving of, Equal in value to something specified, noun_ A quantity of something that may be purchased for a specified sum or by a specified means, That which one is worth; possessions; substance; wealth; riches, Value in respect of moral or personal qualities; excellence; virtue; eminence; desert; merit; usefulness

One who can give a firsthand account of something seen, heard, or experienced, One who is called on to be present at a transaction in order to attest to what takes place, Attestation to a fact, statement, or event; testimony, intransitive verb_ To see or know by personal experience, To consider as an example. Often used in the imperative, To testify to one's religious beliefs, transitive verb_ To see or know by personal presence; to have direct cognizance of, To give testimony to; to testify to; to attest, (Law) To see the execution of, as an instrument, and subscribe it for the purpose of establishing its authenticity

A grammatical unit that is syntactically independent and has a subject that is expressed or, as in imperative sentences, understood and a predicate that contains at least one finite verb, A brief response or antiphon sung by the choir in a church service, An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature, verb_ To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment, pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law, obsolete To decree or announce as a sentence, transitive verb_ To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of, To impose a sentence on (a criminal defendant found guilty, for example), obsolete To utter sententiously.

The act of offering something to a deity in propitiation or homage, especially the ritual slaughter of an animal or a person, A victim offered in this way, Baseball A sacrifice bunt or sacrifice fly, intransitive verb_ To offer as a sacrifice to a deity, To kill (an animal) for purposes of scientific research or experimentation, To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice, transitive verb_ To destroy; to kill, Hence, to destroy, surrender, or suffer to be lost, for the sake of obtaining something; to give up in favor of a higher or more imperative object or duty; to devote, with loss or suffering, To offer (something) as a gift to a deity, verb_ endure the loss of, make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals, kill or destroy

anything indispensable, A necessity or prerequisite; something required or obligatory, That which requires the doing of something; an authoritative or imperative command; an essential condition; claim

To have sexual intercourse with, Used in the imperative as a signal of angry dismissal, To tinker or meddle with something Often used with with, verb_ have sexual intercourse with, vulgar, colloquial To put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation, adverb_ Used as an intensifier for the words "yes" and "no"

A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures, A number of oxen, sheep, or swine driven in a body; cattle driven in a herd_ by extension, a collection or crowd of other animals, or of human beings, in motion, a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together, verb_ Simple past of drive, To finish, as stone, with a drove or drove chisel, To drive, as cattle or sheep, esp on long journeys; to follow the occupation of a drover, imperative_ of drive

Preterit of draw, United States actor (born in Ireland); father of Georgiana Emma Barrymore (1827-1862), verb_ irregular simple past of draw, imperative_ of draw